[ecrea] One-day conference: Art, Visual Culture and the Israeli Occupation

>Art, Visual Culture and the Israeli Occupation
>
>A one-day interdisciplinary conference focusing 
>on how artists and other visual practitioners have
>represented the Israeli occupation, and 
>exploring relationships between visual culture and the
>politics of space in Israel/Palestine.
>
>The conference will discuss the ways in which 
>artists, photographers, and visual activists have
>produced images of different aspects of the 
>occupation, or used visual practices to contest the
>domination of the Palestinians by the Israeli 
>state. Speakers will also address how visual
>technologies and ways of seeing have been 
>structural to the occupation and the Israeli-
>Palestinian conflict.
>
>Saturday 10 May 2008
>10.00am ­ 5.00pm
>
>Lecture Theatre 303
>3rd Floor Chatham Building
>Faculty of Art and Design
>All Saints Campus
>Manchester Metropolitan University
>Map: www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/allsaints
>
>The conference accompanies the first UK showing 
>of the exhibition Desert Generation: 40 Years
>of Occupation, 1967-2007. Israeli and 
>Palestinian Artists Against the Occupation and for a Just
>Peace.
>Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University
>Opening 6pm Thurs 10 April continues Mon to Fri 10am to 4pm until Wed 14 May
>www.holdengallery.mmu.ac.uk/desertgeneration.php
>
>Speakers
>Larry Abramson, Jerusalem based artist/Shenkar 
>College, Art of Camouflage: The Covert Politics
>of Abstraction in Israeli Visual Culture
>
>Sliman Mansour, Jerusalem based artist, Palestinian Art and the Occupation
>
>Wendy Pullan, University of Cambridge, Images 
>and Artefacts of Boundedness and Mobility in
>Contested Jerusalem
>
>Anna Dezeuze, University of Manchester, Lines, 
>Walls and the Politics of Ambiguity
>
>Simon Faulkner, Manchester Metropolitan 
>University, Picturing the West Bank Wall
>
>The conference includes a tour of the Desert 
>Generation exhibition led by Larry Abramson.
>
>Tickets: £25/£10 students
>Cheques to be made out to: Manchester Metropolitan University
>
>To reserve a place or for further information contact: (S.Faulkner /at/ mmu.ac.uk)
>Or go to: www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/locationmemory/occupation/
>
>Please forward.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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